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The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime. Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the social sciences, Paul Robinson describes the nature of the practical challenge in setting rational punishment principles, how past efforts have failed, and the alternatives that have been tried. He ultimately proposes a principle for distributing criminal liability and punishment that will be most likely to do justice and control crime. Paul Robinson, is one of the world's leading criminal law experts. He has been writing about criminal liability and punishment issues for three decades, and has published dozens of influential articles in the best scholarly journals. This long-awaited volume is a brilliant synthesis of social science research and legal reasoning that brings together three decades of work in a compelling line of argument that addresses all of the important issues in assessing liability and punishment.

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Chapter 1. Distributing Criminal Liability and Punishment
Chapter 2. The Need for an Articulated Distributive Principle
Chapter 3. Does Criminal Law Deter?
Chapter 4. Deterrence as a Distributive Principle
Chapter 5. Rehabilitation
Chapter 6. Incapacitation of the Dangerous
Chapter 7. Competing Conceptions of Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical
Chapter 8. The Utility of Desert
Chapter 9. Restorative Justice
Chapter 10.The Strengths & Weaknesses of Alterative Distributive Principles
Chapter 11.Hybrid Distributive Principles
Chapter 12. A Practical Theory of Justice: Proposal for a Hybrid Distributive Principle Centered on Empirical Desert
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